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• The Community Relations Commission invites the public to its annual MLK celebration. The
program will remember and celebrate the life of King starting with a march from City Hall at 4:45
p.m.

• A presentation at Veterans Memorial from 6 to 7 p.m. will showcase performances by the Jazz
Arts Academy, the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Mass Children’s Choir and BalletMet Columbus.

• The 28th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Breakfast will be held from 7 to 10 a.m.
at the Greater Columbus Convention Center Battelle Grand Ballroom.

• First African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church of Columbus, 873 Bryden Rd., will host its 17th
annual Free Community Breakfast honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The breakfast is at 8 a.m.
followed by a service from the pastor.

• Ohio State University will host a Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service starting at 8 a.m. at
the Archie Griffin Ballroom of the Ohio Union. Volunteers will meet at the union and be taken
across Columbus in small groups to work on service projects. For more information, call the Pay It
Forward office at 614-292-7378.

• King Arts Complex, 867 Mount Vernon Ave., will host its annual MLK open house from 10 a.m. to
4 p.m. The event will feature a presentation by Edith Lee-Payne that focuses on the upcoming 50th
anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where King delivered his “I Have a
Dream” speech.

Bexley

• Capital University will hold a Day of Learning from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at College Avenue and
Main Street to celebrate the life and legacy of the civil-rights leader. Keynote speaker at the
convocation, which begins at 9 a.m., will be the Rev. Jamal Harrison Bryant, founder of
Baltimore-based Empowerment Temple. Other free events include: workshops, storytelling and coloring
activities, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Kids Korner; a panel discussion at 1 p.m.; and a dramatic
performance by Act on Racism, a student-oriented anti-racism theater troupe, from 2 to 4 p.m. in
Huntington Recital Hall. The Hank Marr Jazz Luncheon will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the
Capital Court in the Campus Center. Get ticket information at
www.capital.edu/mlk-day.

Delaware

• The Rev. Albert Paul Brinson, a colleague of King’s, will speak at the MLK Breakfast
Celebration, which starts at 7:45 a.m. at Ohio Wesleyan University’s Hamilton-Williams Campus
Center, 40 Rowland Ave. Brinson’s speech starts at 8:30 a.m. Tickets are $20 and will be available
at the door.

• OWU professor Emmanuel Twesigye will discuss President Barack Obama’s second inauguration in
the context of Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil-rights movement at 7 p.m. in the Bayley Room on
the second floor of the Beeghly Library, 43 Rowland Ave. Twesigye’s specialties include church
history, theology and Christian ethics.

Dublin

• The Dublin MLK Community Committee is hosting a free showing of the movie
Lincoln at AMC Dublin Village 18. Doors open at 10:30 a.m. with a program and a movie at
11 a.m. Seats are first-come, first-served.

Granville

• A Community Luncheon and Dialogue will be held from 11:15 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. at Denison
University’s Curtis Veggie Room and Huffman President’s Dining Room. The theme is: “MLK’s Legacy:
The Courage to Create a Just World.” Participants should register at
www.denison.edu.

Lancaster

• A worship service and program beginning at 1 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, 222 N. Broad
St., will feature speaker Lincoln Richardson, a former pastor who is the father of the church
pastor, the Rev. Matthew Richardson. The elder Richardson marched with King in the 1960s.

• A free showing of
At the River I Stand, a documentary about Dr. King’s final days, will be shown at the
annual MLK Commemoration from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday in the John Gilbert Reese Center on the Ohio
State Newark-COTC campus. A discussion and reception will follow.

Worthington

• Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Ohio State University history professor, will speak at the Community
Celebration beginning at 11 a.m. at Worthington United Methodist Church, 600 High St. Jeffries’
speech is titled “Making King Matter: An Appeal to Parents, Teachers, Preachers and Politicians."
The Capriccio Vocal Ensemble, Capriccio Youth Choir and St. John A.M.E. Church Praise Dance
Ministry will perform. A community luncheon will follow. Those attending are asked to bring a
canned food item for the Worthington Food Pantry & Resource Center. For more information, call
614-436-3100.